Check out the NF Center 2021, Volume 2 newsletter (pdf) to read about new research on NF1 brain tumors, meet our newest faculty member, and read updates on patient engagement. Additionally, learn about: The second NF Center Trainee to become a Francis S. Collins Scholar Our resident PT, Makenzie Sledd’s latest Blog If you haven’t […]
Month: August 2021
NF Center Trainee Selected as an O’Leary Prize Competition Finalist
Each year, the Office of Neuroscience Research awards an O’Leary Prize to a predoctoral or doctoral fellow to acknowledge the most original and important accomplishments in neuroscience research at Washington University School of Medicine. Michelle Wegscheid, an MD/PhD student in the laboratory of Dr. David H. Gutmann, was selected to present her research at the […]
Gait Analysis in NF1 Mouse Model Revealed Developmental Abnormalities that Persist into Adulthood
As part of an investigation into share motor impairments across genetic liabilities for intellectual and developmental disorders (IDDs), a research group led by Drs. Susan Maloney and Joseph Dougherty, in collaboration with the Gutmann Lab, recently discovered altered gait development in mice harboring a patient-derived Nf1 gene mutation. This new study conducted a comprehensive analysis of gait […]